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Critical Review of Selected Forest-Related Regulatory Initiatives

Applying a Rights Perspective

Journal Articles & Books
January, 2011
Asia, Malaysia, Philippines, Thailand, India
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
forest law
forestry
community forestry
deforestation
forest conservation
state forests
indigenous peoples' lands
forest land
forest management plans
indigenous peoples' land rights
Indigenous Peoples
This report brings together four studies that evaluate regulatory initiatives with implications for forest-dependent communities from a rights-based perspective. These are: The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006 – India; Regulatory initiatives and selected outcomes of judicial processes in Malaysia; The Community Forest Act (2007) – Thailand; and The Indigenous People’s Rights Act (1997) – Philippines. Each study covers law making, content and implementation.
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Forest-Based Bamboo Trade in Mendha Lekha and Jamguda

Reports & Research
October, 2015
India
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
sustainable development
forest law
forestry
community forestry
forest conservation
forest land
forest management plans
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
community land rights
This paper presents case studies of two tribal villages - Mendha Lekha and Jamguda - successfully running forest-based bamboo businesses under the community forest rights provisions of Forest Rights Act (2006). We have documented the issues faced by the villagers in claiming community forest rights, issues faced in harvesting and sale of bamboo, and business practices adopted by both the villages.
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Disruption or Déjà Vu? Digitalization, Land and Human Rights

Case Studies from Brazil, Indonesia, Georgia, India and Rwanda

Reports & Research
January, 2021
Rwanda, Brazil, Indonesia, India, Georgia
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
rural development
community forestry
land rights
displacement
dispossession
community land rights
customary land rights
indigenous peoples' land rights
rural population

Digital technologies cut off access to land

Despite promises to fix unjust land governance, a new study shows that digital technologies can further land grabbing and inequality.
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Fuelwood consumption and participation in community forestry in India

Reports & Research
July, 2016
India, British Indian Ocean Territory
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
community forestry
forestry
Decentralized forest management is an important policy issue in India and elsewhere. Yet there are few careful studies of the impacts of community forestry. The authors try to fill this gap by analyzing National Sample Survey data from 524 villages in five states in India. Their analysis seeks to answer two key questions: (1) Who participates in community forestry and what are the determinants of participation? (2) What is the impact of participation on household fuelwood consumption?
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Uniting forest and livelihood outcomes? Analyzing external actor interventions in sustainable livelihoods in a community forest management context

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2017
India
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
community forestry
rural development
External actor interventions in community forest management (CFM) attempt to support communities with developing forest institutions and/ or improving their livelihoods portfolio. Common pool resource (CPR) scholars argue that forest institutions are required to prevent overharvesting of the forest resource stock (appropriation dilemma), and to encourage investment in its maintenance (provision dilemma). The sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA) has been widely used to analyse the influence of interventions on rural livelihoods portfolios.
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Community forestry development research in South East Asia : findings of a synthesis study of IDRC supported projects in Cambodia, NE India, Indonesia, Nepal, Philippines and Vietnam

Institutional & promotional materials
December, 2010
Indonesia, India, Cambodia, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
community forestry
natural resources
poverty
Ten IDRC-supported community forestry projects in six countries were selected for this synthesis study. A sizable part of the rural population in these countries are designated as ‘encroachers’ or ‘trespassers’ in the ‘forest.’ Many of these forest users claim long standing customary rights to the area, some of which are formally recognized in state law, but seldom in practice.
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Insight: Notes from the Field, Issue III - Innovative Approaches with Non-Timber Forest Products

Reports & Research
January, 2008
Bhutan, India, Laos, Nepal, Thailand, South-Eastern Asia
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
agroforestry systems
community forestry
Debate over the potential of NTFPs for achieving ecosystem conservation and poverty alleviation has grown in the past decade. Concern has been raised that NTFP activities may not always provide the poor with the expected benefits, and could in some cases even act as a poverty trap (see discussion in Overview paper). Considering these concerns, the objective of this publication is to share experiences on how innovative approaches have led to successful outcomes such as increased access of poor forest dwellers to resources and markets, increased participation, and benefit sharing.
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Insight: Notes from the Field, Issue II

Reports & Research
January, 2007
Indonesia, India, Nepal, Philippines, Vietnam, South-Eastern Asia
Forest Landscape Restoration
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
Land, Climate Change & Environment
agroforestry systems
climate change
community forestry
forest management plans
forestry
land governance
A collection of practical experiences and lessons on Payments for Environmental Services (PES)
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Community Forest Rights and the Pandemic

Gram Sabhas Lead the Way

Reports & Research
October, 2020
India
Forest Tenure
COVID-19
sustainable development
forest law
forestry
community forestry
forest conservation
forest land
sustainable land management
sustainable land use
natural resources management
community land rights
local communities
India is currently among the most affected countries by COVID19, recording over 6 million cases, by September 30 2020. The pandemic and lockdown measures have had a drastic impact on a large population of poor and marginalisedcommunities, causing loss of livelihoods and employment, food insecurity and socio-economic distress.
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Report of the Twenty-seventh Session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission

Journal Articles & Books
April, 2018
Nepal, Fiji, Bhutan, Philippines, Malaysia, Japan, China, Myanmar, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, India, Republic of Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Mongolia
Land, Climate Change & Environment
Urban Tenure
Forest Tenure
Indigenous & Community Land Rights
sustainable land management
forest land
urban forestry
community forestry
This publication reports the proceedings of the twenty-sixth session of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission (APFC) held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, from 23 to 27 October 2017.